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Log buildings and structures can be categorized as historic and modern. A diverse selection of their forms and styles with examples of architectural elements is discussed in the following articles:
Log cabin – a rustic dwelling
Log house – a style and method of building a quality house
Izba – a type of Russian peasant house, often of log construction. The Cabin of Peter the Great is based on an izba.
Crib barn – a type of barn built using log cribs
Some barns are log barns such as the earliest of the Pennsylvania barn types.
Blockhouse, garrison house – some blockhouse or garrison house structures are tightly fitted timber or stacked plank construction buildings to help withstand an attack.
Azekurazukuri – a Japanese style of building using triangular log construction
Some granaries (raccard, stabbur, hórreo) are of log or plank construction.
The Upper Lusatian house, also called Umgebinde in German, combines timber framing and log building
Wooden churches in Ukraine – many of the churches are recognized world heritage sites.
Corner post construction sometimes called post-and-plank – this construction method blurs the line between timber framing and log construction with a frame infilled with logs or planks to form the walls.
Timber dam – timber crib dams are used to dam rivers.
Zakopane Style architecture – inspired by the regional art of Poland's highland region known as Podhale uses log construction.
Hogan – this Native American dwelling evolved to be built of logs.
Chalet – Originally a dwelling-barn-house type farmhouse typically of timber construction (blockbau)
Black Forest house – traditional farmhouse type of timber construction
Octagonal churches in Norway are of log construction, some dating from the 17th century
For Finnish and German language users see the special type of Finnish log church construction called Tukipilarikirkko or Stützpfeilerkirche
Examples of log buildings and structures
Log windmill in Russia
Log church, Kizhi, Russia
Corner post construction in an open-air museum in Slovenia
Baroque granary vulgo Prueger at Mitterdorf #10, Strassburg, Austria
Three-story, octagonal, log threshing barn with a bridge to the second floor in Nätra, Sweden
Logbuildings and structures can be categorized as historic and modern. A diverse selection of their forms and styles with examples of architectural elements...
building several forms of log housing, having different methods of corner timbering, and they utilized both round and hewn logs. Their logbuilding had...
A log house, or logbuilding, is a structure built with horizontal logs interlocked at the corners by notching. Logs may be round, squared or hewn to other...
rural log houses in Norway and large parts of the rest of Scandinavia. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the logbuilding technique...
The Neill Log House (also spelled Neal) is a historic log cabin in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was built during the second half of the...
common form of log cabin wall in America. Logbuilding called a blockhouse with tightly fitting beams. The style of planked logbuilding called a plank...
traditionally filled with river clay, not unlike the North American log cabin. The dominant building material of Russian vernacular architecture, and material culture...
feet (1.8 m) high. Log transportation can be challenging and costly since trees are often far from roads or watercourses. Road building and maintenance may...
and steam heat. The structure is the largest log hotel in the world; possibly even the largest logbuilding in the world. In 2007 the American Institute...
in woodworking joinery (carpentry), including furniture, cabinets, logbuildings, and traditional timber framing. Noted for its resistance to being pulled...
Both the Cypress Log Cabin and the Cypress Guest house are historic buildings in the Century of Progress Architectural District in Beverly Shores, Indiana...
Lincoln Logs are an American children's construction toy consisting of square-notched miniature lightweight logs used to build small forts and buildings. They...
where logbuilding is common. All but one surviving stave churches are in Norway, one in Sweden. Replicas of stave churches and other Norwegian building types...
structure measuring 21 feet 9 inches by 25 feet. The building is a house rather than a cabin because log cabins are only one floor. It was added to the National...
In woodworking, hewing is the process of converting a log from its rounded natural form into lumber (timber) with more or less flat surfaces using primarily...
dominant material but the log technique replaced the stave technique. The log construction gave a lower more sturdy style of building compared to the light...
moved from Sinking Spring Farm, a similar log cabin was placed inside the Memorial Building. The Memorial Building features 16 windows, 16 rosettes on the...
A log boom (sometimes called a log fence or log bag) is a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and or contain floating logs timbered from nearby...
with a mallet and pulling long strips from the log. Log splitting is the act of splitting firewood from logs that have been pre-cut into sections (rounds...
in 1992. Additionally, cocobolo is used to an extent in building drums[citation needed]. Logs, sawn wood, and veneer sheets from the Guatemalan populations...
Log windmill in Russia
Log church, Kizhi, Russia
Corner post construction in an open-air museum in Slovenia
Baroque granary vulgo Prueger at Mitterdorf #10, Strassburg, Austria
Three-story, octagonal, log threshing barn with a bridge to the second floor in Nätra, Sweden
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